MANGE. 



the clear liquid, and make the quantity to five quarts with cold 

 water. 



In using, all the affected parts should be freely wetted with it. 

 Chronic cases of mange often take a month or two to cure. Spratts' 

 Patent make a mange lotion somewhat similar to the above, but 

 containing, I believe, other parasiticides, and I have found it con- 

 venient and very effective. 



Another excellent preparation is : olive oil, 1 pint ; oil of tar, 4oz. ; 

 sulphur, 4oz. This dressing should remain on the skin for one week, 

 and then be washed off with hot water and soap, to 

 which has been added a Httle soda. It should be * 



repeated in twenty -four hours. The ointment of 

 balsam of Peru has also been successfully employed. 



Sulphur is given as an internal remedy for mange, 

 but it is not of any use. Whatever external appli- 

 cation may be used for mange, the dog, or at least 

 the affected parts, should first be well cleansed with 

 soap and water, with the addition of a little of the 

 carbonates of soda or potash, and afterwards well 

 dried. The litter should also be frequently changed, 

 while the walls of the kennel, and all posts and 

 other places where the dog has rubbed, should be 

 treated to Ume-wash containing a little carbolic 

 acid. The floors, too, should be swilled with a 

 weak solution of the acid or some other disin- 

 fectant. 



Various forms of sulphur oiatment are in vogue 

 as cures for mange, some of them combining with 

 the flowers of sulphur powdered hellebore (a strong 

 poison) made up with soft soap, whale or seal oUs, 

 turpentine, etc., the whole forming a compound 

 as disgusting to sight and smell as the worst cases 

 of mange. Moreover, I have not found them one W Ovsl Sucker, 

 bit more effective than a simple ointment made 9} J^° 

 with 1 part of sulphur to 4 parts of lard. 



Follicular Mange is due to another mite (Demodex 

 follieulorum. Fig. 13), very different in appearance from the 

 Sareoptis, which are short and thick, whereas the Demodex is elon- 

 gated, and with a long, obtuse taU. These parasites differ in their 

 habits, the Demodex living in the hair-follicles, and burrowing 

 deep under the skin in the sebaceous gland that supplies the 

 unctuous matter to protect the skin and keep it soft. The depth 

 to which the Demodex burrows renders Follicular mange much less 

 easy of transmission beweeu dogs ; but it also makes a cure much 



dex folliculoruTn). 

 (Magnified). 



